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I'm not sure how to feel about this. Glen, What was your first thought?

Hmmm. Neil Aspinall gone, Julian cashing in...

REALLY the beginning of the end?

beginning of the end? It's been almost 40 years since the broke up... the END was a while ago. as long as I got their music, nothing they do can really bother me that much...

I don't know. I think it's pretty clear that there are numerous people in these families who live pretty high on the hog but generate little if any income on their own. Julian might be one of them. I think the repackages and rehashes (1, Love, etc.) are a sign of things to come. I think the fabs themselves were a lot more careful about cashing in than their kin are.

I guess it really doesn't matter one way or the other. The music is there and nothing can change that.

The end really came in 1980 when John died, and 2001 when George passed on. Everything else just seems like postscript. The music is still there, and that's what's important like Kent said.

Julian really never knew his dad all that well. By all accounts he was closer to Paul in some respects. George is gone, Yoko is a money grabbing, bizzy ditch, so I am not surprised that they are selling out. Even though Julian reportedly does not like Yoko very much he and his mother are following in her footsteps in so far as they are selling their future proceeds.

Like Kent said we have their music. It's readily available in the public domain, so who cares.

I should have been more accurate ... its the music and the memories that cant be taken away.

Pardon me while I go to my time machine for a trip back to 1962.

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Ah, thats MUCH better.

I agree!

Kent... Take me with you!

Done!... that cruise on the Royal Iris Riverboat was a blast, eh? I dug them bouffant chicks and the lads were in great form ... and a wee bit drunk I might add, but then so were we.

This was July 6, 1962 and it was pretty clear to me that Pete was the odd man out of the tight nit John-Paul-George group. If he wasn't aware of the division, he should have been.

You were on the cruise that night Kent? Can you give ANY more details about it? Just...I don't know....what did it SOUND like....you've lived the dream. I'd love to hear anything you remember about the whole night...

Great pic uptop there. Never saw that one before...

Sorry to disappoint you Michael, but Kent and i jumped into his "time machine" back to '62!(Jump back a few posts in this topic!)
Would've loved to have lived that dream, but, hell, i had just turned 2 at the time, and Kent would have been 8 or 9?

I've always liked Julian. I thought he got the short end of the stick, seemed to have some talent, appeared the least affected by the Beatle thing.

This move is a low class move in my opinion. Particularly when he claims he did it to help his career. That is either a load, or he is delusional. He is a 44 year old man who has had a shot. Did great with what he had, but get a grip about a career in the music. That's over in a flash and he is selling an unbelievable piece of history, that in my opinion should be owned by a Lennon forever. It's a sad, sad sellout. WTF? The music made 24 million last year, that's not enough? I don't like it I tell ya, not one bit!

I'm starting to like Yoko. (I gotta lay down after that crack)